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• Ben Jealous, voormalig uitvoerend directeur van een grote burgerrechtenorganisatie, bestrijdt wat hij omschrijft als een "ontmoedigende" beslissing om zijn dienstverband te beëindigen. • Jealous hield tijdens zijn tweejarige ambtstermijn toezicht op meerdere rondes van ontslagen en zou hebben getwijfeld met personeel over de organisatorische koers en beleidsprioriteiten. • Zijn verwijdering vertegenwoordigt een significante leiderschapstransitie binnen de belangenorganisatie en weerspiegelt interne spanningen over de managementstrategie.

Database could be used to regulate opponents, from ‘shutting off bank accounts’ to healthcare, official warnsDonald Trump is attempting to select his own citizenry and control who can vote by gathering the personal details of all Americans, Arizona’s top election official has warned.Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, fears that the Trump administration’s active efforts to forcibly extract voter files from 30 states including Fontes’s own are part of a bigger plan to gather vital information on all US citizens into a centralised database. “Trump is trying to amass a master list that will allow him to declare someone an enemy of the state,” he said. Continue reading...

President has long been a fan of mixed martial artsIvanka and Donald Trump Jr also at eventDonald Trump and US secretary of state Marco Rubio attended a UFC event in Miami night on Saturday as peace talks with Iran failed on the other side of the world.Trump entered the Kaseya Center shortly after 9pm alongside several members of his family and UFC chief Dana White, who has been a supporter of the president since his first term. Seated nearby was Rubio as well as US ambassador to India Sergio Gor, the rapper Vanilla Ice and former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino. Continue reading...